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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have shown that increasing roast color intensity steadily ramps up the antioxidant capacities of peanuts, peanut flour and peanut skins. http://www.physorg.com/news179595724.html Chemistry Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:00:10 EST news179595724 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield. http://www.physorg.com/news179521759.html Biology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:50:01 EST news179521759 (PhysOrg.com) -- A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster for producers and processors to determine these important quality indicators. http://www.physorg.com/news177941021.html Biology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:05 EST news177941021 (AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches. http://www.physorg.com/news176963421.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:31:50 EST news176963421 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many residents of New Longoro, a small village in the countryside of Ghana, are small-scale farmers, and one of the crops they grow is groundnuts - what we call peanuts. But harvesting and processing the nuts is a long and labor-intensive process, and the hardest part is the threshing - scraping the uprooted plants to release the pods containing the nuts. A better, faster way to thresh the nuts could enable each farmer to grow more of them and get them to market faster, thereby boosting their incomes. http://www.physorg.com/news173102562.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:20:01 EST news173102562 (AP) -- The huge salmonella outbreak from peanut butter represented a failure of the Food and Drug Administration, that agency's new chiefs declared Tuesday - one they hope to fix. http://www.physorg.com/news162577286.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 17:23:27 EST news162577286 (AP) -- The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. http://www.physorg.com/news156752062.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:15:11 EST news156752062 (AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. http://www.physorg.com/news156663460.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:38:19 EST news156663460 Nearly four per cent of ACT kindergarten children have a peanut allergy and while the region's schools are well prepared to cope with this, some parents are taking inappropriate action when dealing with their child's allergy, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news156521107.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:05:19 EST news156521107 A carefully administered daily dose of peanuts has been so successful as a therapy for peanut allergies that a select group of children is now off treatment and eating peanuts daily, report doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news156349642.html Medicine & Health Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:27:59 EST news156349642 A new national survey conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health finds that the vast majority (93%) of Americans have heard or read about the recent ongoing recall of peanut products. Among those who are aware of the recall, about six in ten (61%) say they have taken one or more precautions to reduce their risk of getting sick from contaminated peanut products. Specifically, about one in four say they have checked ingredient lists on foods in the grocery store to make sure they know which products contain peanuts (27%), thrown away foods in their home that they think might be on the recall list (25%), stopped ordering foods containing peanuts in restaurants (22%), and stopped eating those foods they heard were in the recall (28%), while 15% say they have stopped eating all foods containing peanuts. http://www.physorg.com/news153756551.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:09:44 EST news153756551 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the second time in two years, a nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis has been tied to peanut products. This time, over 570 people have been sickened and over 1700 products have been taken off supermarket shelves so far, in what is now the largest food-related recall in the country`s history. http://www.physorg.com/news153597262.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:55:37 EST news153597262 Consumers must remain vigilant about tossing salmonella-tainted peanut products found during a recent outbreak, food safety experts said. A few more people get sick every week. More than 400 products have been recalled, and more products are recalled daily. And last week, the Georgia factory blamed for the outbreak recalled every product made since January 2007, so more items may be pulled from store shelves in coming weeks. http://www.physorg.com/news152808843.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:36 EST news152808843 It's as if the whole nation just acquired a peanut allergy. As a salmonella outbreak sickens hundreds of people across the country, federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat products containing peanut butter until they get more information about which products are behind the outbreak. http://www.physorg.com/news152473410.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:19 EST news152473410 The increasing popularity of reduced tillage on crops has not only been an important development in combating soil erosion, but it has also been associated with increasing organic material and producing high crop yields. http://www.physorg.com/news145531536.html Biology Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:25:36 EST news145531536